Plugin developer question.

How do you tell ISY and thus Alexa what kind of device your node is.

The hints do not seem to be respected but I may not be using the correct ones.

Specifically I am trying to tell her that the node is a temperature / thermostat, based on a user request.

Let me know if you have any breadcrumbs.

Where are these "hints" defined in a plugin?

Hold on... I was just looking through the Venstar plugin, and found these lines:

id = "THERMOSTAT:
hint = 0x010C0100 # Residential/HVAC/Thermostat

...

id = "SENSOR:
hint = 0x01030300 # Residential/Sensor/Climate Sensor

On 11/8/2025 at 11:30 AM, sjenkins said:

Plugin developer question.

How do you tell ISY and thus Alexa what kind of device your node is.

The hints do not seem to be respected but I may not be using the correct ones.

Specifically I am trying to tell her that the node is a temperature / thermostat, based on a user request.

Let me know if you have any breadcrumbs.

Hints are a way to tell what type of device this is, but this never really took off.

So far Alexa mostly recognizes insteon and ZWave types. So set the hint to a known Zwave or insteon type.

For a thermostat, 4.8.x.x should work.

Just make sure that /rest/nodes/yourdevice returns a type 4.8.x.x

@bmercier thanks,

I was using a different one; I’ll give this one a shot and we will test and report back here for documentation.